This article offers a European  critique of the current economic crisis in the U.S. Europeans point out that U.S. monetary authorities kept interest rates too low for too long because inflation showed up in the one place we are delighted with it: in our home prices. Or as Williamson puts it: "If the price of gasoline doubles, there's a whole Wagner opera of angst. But housing prices doubled between January 2000 and November 2005, and then climbed another 13 percent … more